Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:57:33 -0800
From: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
       Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>, val_henson@linux.interl.com,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting MS_RELATIME
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On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:53:18PM +0200, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:39PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >The one problem with noatime is that mutt's 'new mail arrived' breaks
> > 
> > Just why does not it use mtime then to check for New Mail Arrived, like 
> 
> I have always used:
> 
>   --enable-buffy-size        Use file size attribute instead of access time
> 
> Support was there at least in 1998, maybe before.

Good point.  However, this works for mutt because new mail is an
append-only operation.  Other apps don't have the guarantee that file
modifications that they care about will change the file size.

-VAL
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